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<span id="overriding-templates"></span><h1>Overriding templates<a class="headerlink" href="#overriding-templates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>In your project, you might want to override a template in another Django
application, whether it be a third-party application or a contrib application
such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admin</span></code>. You can either put template overrides in your
project’s templates directory or in an application’s templates directory.</p>
<p>If you have app and project templates directories that both contain overrides,
the default Django template loader will try to load the template from the
project-level directory first. In other words, <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATES-DIRS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DIRS</span></code></a>
is searched before <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATES-APP_DIRS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">APP_DIRS</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-overriding-from-the-project-s-templates-directory">
<span id="overriding-from-the-project-s-templates-directory"></span><h2>Overriding from the project’s templates directory<a class="headerlink" href="#overriding-from-the-project-s-templates-directory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>First, we’ll explore overriding templates by creating replacement templates in
your project’s templates directory.</p>
<p>Let’s say you’re trying to override the templates for a third-party application
called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog</span></code>, which provides the templates <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/post.html</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/list.html</span></code>. The relevant settings for your project would look like:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>

<span class="n">BASE_DIR</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dirname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dirname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">abspath</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="vm">__file__</span><span class="p">)))</span>

<span class="n">INSTALLED_APPS</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s1">&#39;blog&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">]</span>

<span class="n">TEMPLATES</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;BACKEND&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;DIRS&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">BASE_DIR</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;templates&#39;</span><span class="p">)],</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;APP_DIRS&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="o">...</span>
    <span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATES"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TEMPLATES</span></code></a> setting and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BASE_DIR</span></code> will already exist if you
created your project using the default project template. The setting that needs
to be modified is <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATES-DIRS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DIRS</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>These settings assume you have a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">templates</span></code> directory in the root of your
project. To override the templates for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog</span></code> app, create a folder
in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">templates</span></code> directory, and add the template files to that folder:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>templates/
    blog/
        list.html
        post.html
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The template loader first looks for templates in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DIRS</span></code> directory. When
the views in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog</span></code> app ask for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/post.html</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/list.html</span></code> templates, the loader will return the files you just created.</p>
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<div class="section" id="s-overriding-from-an-app-s-template-directory">
<span id="overriding-from-an-app-s-template-directory"></span><h2>Overriding from an app’s template directory<a class="headerlink" href="#overriding-from-an-app-s-template-directory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Since you’re overriding templates located outside of one of your project’s
apps, it’s more common to use the first method and put template overrides in a
project’s templates folder. If you prefer, however, it’s also possible to put
the overrides in an app’s template directory.</p>
<p>First, make sure your template settings are checking inside app directories:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">TEMPLATES</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;APP_DIRS&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="o">...</span>
    <span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you want to put the template overrides in an app called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myapp</span></code> and the
templates to override are named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/list.html</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blog/post.html</span></code>,
then your directory structure will look like:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>myapp/
    templates/
        blog/
            list.html
            post.html
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>With <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATES-APP_DIRS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">APP_DIRS</span></code></a> set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, the template
loader will look in the app’s templates directory and find the templates.</p>
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